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“
Program managers: We can’t afford to execute programs the
way we did five years ago. Take full advantage of acquisition
tailoring and push back on the bureaucracy so we can focus
on product instead of process.”— Col. Richard Haggerty,
“Driving Out ‘The Stupid’: Leveraging IT Lessons Learned
from DOD and Industry”
“
Creating a team of military and civilian acquisition profession-
als to advise the congressional staff who write the National
Defense Authorization Act would result in better laws and
policies for both the warfighter and taxpayer, with fewer
unintended consequences from politically motivated or indus-
try-requested additions.”—U.S . Air Force Capt. Christopher
W. Piercy, “Creating a Defense Acquisition Consulting Team”
“
The Army is currently running two parallel acquisition sys-
tems with no plans for how to move products from the urgent
track to the deliberate track; with revised vocabulary, mile-
stones and responsibilities for the major players in each system,
the Army can bridge that gap.”—Mr. Stephen F. Conley and
Dr. Craig M. Arndt, “A Model and Process for Transitioning
Urgent Acquisition”
“
DOD is investing $80 million in a partnership with the
Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, which
pledged $214 million. Our goal is to make it possible and
practical to manufacture tissue, so we can offer service
members a better chance of fully healing after catastrophic
injuries.”— Ms. K risty Pottol and Mr. John Getz, “Seeking
Innovative Ways to Restore Our Warfighters”
“
Following completion of a detailed side-by-side comparison,
the Army determined that establishing government-run repair
and supply depot operations for its aerial sensor program
(versus the existing depot run by the sensor’s manufacturer)
would save the program a significant amount of money. Addi-
tionally, the manufacturer remained available to provide
limited support.”— Lt. Col. Kecia Troy, Ms. Carla Miller,
Mr. Joshua Erlien and Dr. Christina Bates, “Ready for Future
Operations: Establishing an Organic Depot to Maintain the
Army’s Premier Aerial Sensor System”
“
The maneuver commander needs to destroy an enemy target
NOW with a GPS-guided munition. Unfortunately, the only
available weapon is in a valley and the mountainous terrain is
blocking it from seeing the required number of GPS satellites
in the sky—but network-assisted GPS can ‘tell’ the munition
where the satellites are ... fire for effect!”— Mr. Paul Manz,
“Network Assisted GPS ... Coming Soon to a Precision Fire
Mission Near You!”
“
Tactical power affects all Army warfighting functions and
must be integrated into the future combined arms fight.
Microgrids and hybrids—generators paired with advanced
batteries—will offer significant operational and logistical
benefits and will be key enablers for multidomain battle.”—
Mr. John M. Spiller, Lt. Col., USA (Ret.), “ Tactical Power for
Multidomain Battle”
(For details on Lt. Col. Rachael Hoagland’s paper on what the
Army can learn from Amazon, see “The ‘Armyzon’ Equation,”
Page 39.)
— ARMY AL&T STAFF
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